Introduction: International Review of Constitutionalism Special Issue on Law, Poverty and Economic Inequality

Abstract:     
Editors introduction: This collection of articles by noted scholars examines what law and legal institutions can do to alleviate poverty and economic inequality in the new economic and political environment. The articles explore the contours of many struggles for distributive justice. They describe contemporary constitutional strategies, such as the incorporation of economic, social and cultural rights in constitutions in relation to grassroots anti-poverty campaigns in many parts of the world, including campaigns for rights in South Africa, and poor people's economic and human rights campaigns in the United States. Such campaigns face well-known disadvantages in contending with entrenched, powerful, and vastly wealthier interests.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 10

Keywords: poverty, human rights, constitutions

JEL Classification: K00, K1, K33

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